The National Diet Library of Japan is, of course, in Japanese, but Google Translate provides a publication date of 1935 for the book. Amelia Earhart wouldn’t go missing until two years later, on July 2, 1937.

National Diet Library of Japan

This blog post from Twitter user @baron_yamaneko dated Sunday, July 9, 2017 is likely the first mention of the photo in the 1935 book. (It's in Japanese, so you'll probably need Google Translate.)

What do you think? Either the new “dock photo” is genuine and provides compelling evidence that Earhart was captured, or the same photo appearing in a travel book two years earlier disproves everything.

Did you get swept up in all the excitement around the new photo? What do you make of this new twist?